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Knowing how to configure your camera buttons

Knowing how to configure your camera buttons

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Knowing how to configure your camera buttons

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When you're shooting in a landscape frame of mind, most of the things you're shooting aren't going to move. If they are moving either you're pointed in the wrong direction or something's gone horribly wrong. But in general you're shooting stationary objects, which means that variation from frame to frame is coming by you making slight adjustments to your framing or maybe changes to your exposure. Now, normally by default, your camera is set up so that when you half press the shutter button, it focuses, it meters, and it probably auto wide balances unless you've set a manual wide balance. And that's great. I normally don't keep my camera configured that way, though. And I especially don't want it configured that way when I'm shooting landscape. What I do is configure my camera so that the shutter button, when I half-press it, meters. For auto-focus, I have to press a different button. In the case of this Rebel XL1, I can configure it so that this button right here is an auto-focus…

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